Severe hypertension and massive proteinuria in a newborn with renal artery stenosis
✍ Scribed by François Cachat; Alina Bogaru; Jean-Leopold Micheli; Domenico Lepori; Jean-Pierre Guignard
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 215 KB
- Volume
- 19
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0931-041X
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